The Associated Press reported that it was “rare” for such an outage to be global. However, there is no data as of yet to show that the outage is connected to the recent news. Some Twitter users mentioned that Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp all went down on the day following a “60 Minutes” report about Facebook and Instagram. The matter also led to a number of humorous tweets.Įveryone running to twitter whenever instagram and facebook are down #instagramdown /S9IciXkgUg I wonder how hard Twitter usage spikes when Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp all go down at once For example, there was the time TikTok went down in July 2021. Twitter has become a gathering place when various social media platforms go down. Meanwhile, Facebook users took to Twitter to vent about the outage, using the the hashtag “#facebookdown.Also found on Twitter was a considerable amount of discussion about the outage. The outage comes a day after a blockbuster “60 Minutes” report revealing a whistleblower accusing Facebook of dismantling guardrails protecting the public good.įacebook stock was down more than 5 percent Monday afternoon. ET, nearly 70,000 users reported an issue with the platform. ET Monday, 125,375 users reported an issue with Facebook, according to Downdetector. The company did not break out numbers for WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger.Īt the outage’s peak at 11:52 a.m. On Facebook’s latest quarterly earnings call in July, the company reported daily active users of 1.91 billion on its flagship social media network.

Messages sent through the WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger mobile app appeared not to go through Monday. We‘re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can.” Facebook’s main page showed the message “Sorry, something went wrong. Instagram and WhatsApp’s main pages on a desktop browser app displayed a “5xx Server Error” message on a white screen. Bear with us, we’re on it! #instagramdown.” Thanks for your patience!”Ī Twitter account for Instagram published the message: “Instagram and friends are having a little bit of a hard time right now, and you may be having issues using them. We’re working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible. We are experiencing networking issues and teams are working as fast as possible to debug and restore as fast as possible- Mike Schroepfer October 4, 2021Įarlier in the day, WhatsApp’s Twitter account posted: “We’re aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment. *Sincere* apologies to everyone impacted by outages of Facebook powered services right now.

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